Heyo Peopo, (see what I did there?) Maya here (The cool one) and I haven't been on here to upload a chapter in a while, so I feel very special (and yes I'm the one wierd reviews, Not Kelsey) I just wanted to thank all of you who HAVE reviewed and say. YOU ARE SO TOTALLY AWESOME DUDE. Thanks, sorry for freaking you out. Bye and ENJOY this chapter and have lOVELY lives.

Um, Here's one we haven't done in a while...

Sam's POV

Seeing Jason really upset my good vibes. But other than all the hate mail I was planning on sending Atlas, or Atty as my newly found little brother likes to call him, Jason's appearance almost knocked me off my feet! Not because I was romantically attracted to him. Gods No! If you know how much I cursed him for killing that boar, (it wasn't going to hurt us if only we ran away) you wouldn't even suspect me in any way of liking that boar killing, backstabbing basta- I'll get back to the story.

He's changed a lot from that 6 year old that I used to know. Except for the blonde hair and the scar. He looks like he's under a lot of stress. But the one big change I saw in him was how he looked at that girl with choppy brown hair.

The real guy that caught my eye was that insanely funny dude! Leo, I think it was. How, even the name makes my heart flutter. He's everything I ever imagined my dream guy to be: Funny, tan, tall, gorgeous hair, and the hottest laugh! He kind of reminded me of Harry Styles from One Direction. But he's not gay... at least I hope!

I watch him talking to Jason. He was protesting something. I could barely hear it over the icy wind at the top of the mountain, but I think it went something like this.

"I do not snore!" Leo protested.

"Uh, yea you do, or else you would know this..." I tuned it out. I knew he was telling Leo about how we knew each other, but I didn't want to relive them.

"Hey, Sam!" Annabeth came walking up to me; I looked at her and said,

"I'm sorry you thought I was Percy's new girlfriend." I put a sympathetic look on my face, which must have been pretty priceless because she burst out laughing. Annabeth turned to looked at me, still smiling, while she continued to wrap the cloth around my arm.

"Oh I knew it I guess, but I just have a lot going on, I should be the one apologizing!" She said, her gray eyes suddenly sad. I smiled Can I actually be making friends? I wondered to myself, I wasn't used to this, the only friend I ever had was Jason, who stabbed me in the back, just like he stabbed the boar.

"If you don't mind me asking," Annabeth started nervously, like I was a bomb that could go off at any moment. She finished wrapping the cloth around my arm and looked at me again.

"What's going on with you and Jason? It seems as though you two know each other?" She said slowly, she was good, I had to give her that, she seemed to be able to figure things out quickly.

"Well, I guess so..." I didn't feel like telling my sob-story to anyone again today, like I needed more people to feel bad for me.

"Tell me," she prodded, I sighed.

"You wouldn't understand my sucky life" I said quietly.

"Try me" She said. "I had to run away when I was seven and live by myself with my two best friends, then I had to watch my best friend die, both of them die actually." She whispered the last part, as if this was something she didn't like to talk about much. I was surprised though, not many people had as bad of a life as me, I guess my little bro's girlfriend was more than I thought she was at first. Her gray eyes bore into mine, I could tell she got frustrated when she didn't know things, I knew it would probably be best if I just sucked up my pride and told her, and I did, every gory detail, even the parts about Jason, she just sat there nodding, not interrupting once. When I finished I looked down at my shoes, afraid of what her overall reaction was, she seemed to be taking it all in, we sat in silence for a while before I hear a clomping of footsteps, startled we both looked up to see everyone running. Griffins were raining down on the rest of the group.

"Do we get ANY rest?" Annabeth glared at the sky as she said it.

"Apparently not," I sighed, and then watched a Griffin almost take Leo away. My anger for them washed over me. "Let's go... before L-," I caught myself, "anyone gets hurt."

When I got to the fight, I had a feeling that there was no point. There was too many of them. But one thing you should know about me, I never go down without a fight, even if I don't like hurting things.

I strapped on my mask, and ran towards the crowd, now standing in a circle, all protecting each other like a family. I felt left out, I barely knew any of these people, with the exception of Jason, I turned to see how he was doing, just as he got lifted into the air by a Griffin. Piper was next, kicking her feet frantically, as if that would make the Griffin release her. More Griffins were attacking in overwhelming flocks. I looked up, sensing where they were, and it was not looking good for us. I barely registered Atlas (Atty) in the background screaming "YES! THIS IS WHAT YOU DESERVE... YO-YOU... PUNKS! YEA YOU'RE PUNKS! WHAT? RESPECT, YO!" Leo looked at him, disgusted. I didn't even know that Atty would know those new of words, but I guess word does travel... even if your trapped under the sky.

"Don't even try, Dinosaur." I was really starting to like this guy. I restrained my urge to sigh and bat my eyelashes. Atlas scrambled for something to say but only flopping his mouth, so he looked like a fish.

"Maybe we should call you Fish Fa-" Leo never got to finish the sentence. A Griffin swooped in and picked him up in its metallic talons.

"Hey, you dirty rotten..." He added some rather rude choice words, causing other Griffins to gawk at him as I heard them think who brought this kid up? Animals? This, I thought, was pretty rude, seeming as they really are animals.

Annabeth went next, not going down without a fight, I might add. She slashed the first on that tried to pick her up into a million golden flecks. One came up behind her and took her by the back of the shirt; she put on her Yankees cap and went invisible. I tore my mask off and stared. The griffon didn't notice at first and then when it saw there was nothing in its grip and flexed its feet; I heard a distant scream and a big thud.

"Annabeth!" Percy and I both screamed in unison. I put my mask back on, trying to feel where she was, her presence was faint a few feet away, I ran towards it, Percy followed me. I reached forward to where she was and pulled off her cap, Percy turned around and fought off the griffons, none of them were a match for him, he twisted and turned, catching one in the wing and bringing it down in a heap. I bit back a scream as I heard its thought reach towards me, that is a secret I never let anyone know, not even my ex-best friend Jason. I didn't just not like hurting animals, I could hear their every thought. A "gift" Neptune gave to me so many years ago. Thanks, dad.

Help me it cried to me. I bit my lip and turned back to Annabeth, trying to ignore its pitiful cries to its brethren.

Percy didn't even seem to notice that it wasn't dead; he was too busy fighting off three or four griffons at a time. I knew that they no longer were trying to capture us; they were trying to get to their wounded brother. They kept trying to get Percy to notice this, I could sense it, they moved to the side towards their family, but Percy was oblivious to this. I knew I couldn't do anything about this so I turned back to Annabeth, I pulled my mask off so I at least wouldn't feel the griffins emotions. They were becoming so restless to help their brother; their wounded cries were breaking my heart. I wiped a tear from my eye and tore my gaze from them to Annabeth.

Her temple was bleeding slightly, but other than that she had no broken bones, she must have just blacked out. I remembered Atlas and the Griffons and slipped her Yankees cap back on so she could get away when she awoke.

I turned back to Percy and the griffon that was lying on the ground. Please it whispered into my mind. Take me out of my torture. I wiped a tear from my cheek, I picked up Annabeth's dagger and threw it at the griffons heart, turning away as I did it, it exploded in a burst of golden dust, but not before I heard it's last thought thank you. I wiped another tear with my mask and tied it back on.

The Griffons gave one last look at me and flew upwards, so that Percy couldn't get to them, Percy saw the tear stains on my face immediately.

"Sam?" His face turned to worried, "Is Annabeth okay?" I nodded, but Percy's eyes grew wide.

"Sam!" He tried to warn me, but a dagger went in front of my throat. "You really think that I was that easy to beat" Atlas hissed in my ear, spit rained on my ear, I resisted the urge to wipe it.

"Let her go Atty!" Percy yelled, Atlas tightened his grip on me, "Don't call me that infernal name Perseus!" Percy glared at him, but remained silent. A griffon flew in the middle of us and dropped a girl, she had spiky black hair, and she stood up and dusted herself off and yelled some unmentionable things behind her shoulder at the griffon. Her electric blue eyes went straight to Atlas, she glared at him, raising one eyebrow.

"Thalia?" Percy asked.

Whooo hooo adding to the party WHOOO HOO! WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN? oh, wait... I ALREADY know! but i can't give anything away... partly because Maya and I haven't even started writing it yet... yeah, about that...

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